Teddybear

"He wants to," she knew she wasn't lying. She could hear it in the way Jason had spoken, see it in his body language. He wanted to return more than ...

Kate didn't look happy about that in the slightest. She wrestled the sweater as still as she could get it and glared at Baba. She was going to kill that ...

"It's alright, you don't have to tell if you don't want to." Her response was strange, but Megara wasn't one to judge. After all, there was plenty she wouldn't in ...

She shook her head as she took the kit and grabbed one of the dresses, "No, this is all. I can modify the gowns to conceal blades, for emergencies. If ...

Megara stiffened again, her gaze dropped to the floor. The lines and swirls of the floorboards painted a picture beneath her of nothing in particular, which she seemed to find ...

Ciel raised her eyebrows at the word 'number' and looked to Megara, who shrugged dismissively, "He can envision it. Wanna get on with the spell?" she said, flippant, overconfident, sounding ...

"Yes," she countered, her voice hardened with certainty, "he will. He'll be different, but so will you. When he died he came back, that doesn't happen in my world. And ...

Megara nodded, "Those'll do." She assessed them again. They could be modified to hide a few knives of various kinds, that was good. She'd have to work quickly, though, if ...

Megara felt like she should laugh, but all she could do was tighten her grip on Runi. This embrace felt a lot like another. It might not have been the ...

Megara stiffened at the sudden touch but forced herself to relax. To hug her back. And then she didn't want to let go. "Why do you look like Rory?" she ...

Megara's eyes went wide and she shook her head, "No, Runi, I'm not...whoever this is," she gestured to herself, her words a little frantic. This was Runi, for sure. They ...

Kate's eyes burned, "You mean to tell me, that you made it like this permanently ?!" she growled, really ready to scream the moment one more thing went wrong.

A jolt of panic sized Megara by the throat and squeezed with every passing word. This wasn't Rory. Relief, then panic again as she realized what was being said, and ...

She swallowed a lump in her throat and walked forward, meaning to step closer to Rory, though she didn't know what she'd say once she got there. That was when ...

Megara froze. Stared. Of course, of course, she'd run into Rory here. Rory, crying. Alive and crying. The 'alive' part still hadn't processed. "Rory?" she said. A doppelganger. Rory's double. ...